Example sentences of "he have not [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 Jones has a lovely service but he has not been looking good behind a struggling pack .
2 Also , the pilot will be in very good flying form and his instructor will have made sure that he has not been getting into bad habits .
3 MODEST hero Ian Olney was the first to admit he has not been playing well .
4 Thin , pale , intense , he had not been speaking many minutes before we were electrified by this man .
5 At a White House meeting on 10 November Reagan argued that he had not been dealing with terrorists in Iran but only moderates .
6 He had not been searching specially for them so that , as he wrote in his journal , " It is sufficient to disturb the composure of an entomologist 's mind to look forward to the future dimensions of a complete catalogue " .
7 Initially the king was unsympathetic to Hopton 's petition , claiming that at the material time he had not been acting as a justice owing to a bureaucratic muddle over his appointment , but by December 1290 he had agreed that the money Hopton had already paid towards his fine should count instead towards a fine he had made to secure the wardship of the lands of his late wife .
8 Even after his first round of 69 , Woosnam was still maintaining that he had not been looking forward to playing , that it had not done much for his confidence and that he was still very nervous with the putter in his hand .
9 Clearly he had not been expecting a confrontation .
10 He had not been expecting the change in subject .
11 She revealed that he had not been taking anti-depressant tablets prescribed by a doctor .
12 Josh had the newspaper spread out in front of him on the table , but Ruth felt sure that he had not been reading it ; she doubted if he even knew it was there .
13 That he had not been misappropriating money or land for his own benefit was shown by his dire financial straits which led to his brief imprisonment as a debtor .
14 When Keynes had talked of the ‘ euthanasia of the rentier ’ he had not been thinking of cricket , but the MCC had to face the reality of the decline of the leisured classes .
15 He knew he had not been dozing very long because the smells of fried bacon and toasted bread still drifted through the house .
16 He had not been eating properly and had been drinking more than usual .
17 In a series of other cases from eyres where Mettingham had been one of the justices the auditors accepted his ‘ record ’ that he had not been sitting in the court when the case concerned was decided .
18 Everything was going too fast except Andy and he had not been going fast enough .
19 Just as though he had not been going to walk past into the kitchen , he wheeled , and pounded up the stairs in front of her .
20 He had papers in front of him , but Wycliffe felt sure that he had not been working .
21 In other words , he had not been attending the kirk .
22 Judge Gabriel Hutton told Gallagher he accepted that he had not been racing .
23 Sentencing Clarke at Oxford Crown Court , Judge Francis Allen said he took into account he had not been driving his van fast or badly at the time .
24 He had not been cancelling his offer !
25 all you have , all you have to say to him is dad 's back at work , he 's not been using the telly
26 TIGHT-LIPS Taylor to-morrow meets the Press he 's not been speaking to .
27 I hope he 's not been annoying you .
28 ‘ We talked about football but all he wanted to talk about was sex , ’ she said , before adding , ‘ I hear he 's not been scoring many goals recently and that 's why he left Arsenal , but all I can tell you is he certainly scored a hat-trick with me that night . ’
29 So far as I can tell , and that 's not as far as I 'd like , on the last few Fridays he 's not been going to any other bank or finance house .
30 He 's not been feeling himself lately .
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